The trading diary

Some of what determines a trading day is not attached to any single trade. You slept badly, you were annoyed about something unrelated, you were trying to make back yesterday. The diary is one entry per calendar day for exactly that.

What to write

One honest paragraph beats a structured form you will stop filling in. Things worth capturing:

• How you felt before the session started, not just after it went wrong.
• What you were trying to do — grind, sit out, make something back.
• Anything outside trading that had your attention.
• The moment you would most like to have back, and what it looked like beforehand.

Green, red, and rest days

Each day is classified from your trades, not from what you write — a green day made money, a red day lost, and a rest day had no closed trades. Because it is derived rather than chosen, you cannot accidentally file a losing day as a good one, and the classification stays correct if you later fix a trade.

What it is for

The diary is what turns the psychology side of the insights page from a guess into a comparison. Pairing what you wrote with what you traded is how patterns like trading larger after a loss, or breaking rules on low-sleep days, become visible instead of merely suspected.

It is also the reason the app can nudge you: if you closed trades on a day with no diary entry, you will get a journal reminder in the notification feed. You can switch those off in Settings → General.